1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 2: It was nice to go out with you last night 3 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: to see Finding the Voice. This is the new John 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,920 Speaker 2: Farnham documentary, and I've read great reviews about this and 5 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 2: I was so happy to watch this. It was such 6 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: a good biopic. 7 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: It really was. It's going to be in cinemas next week. 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,600 Speaker 1: It's a film length, it's an hour and a half, 9 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: but the most extraordinary documentary. And you think you know 10 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: John Farnham, you think you know the songs, but I 11 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: came out of it so churned up with emotion. I 12 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: listened to John on the way home. I felt like 13 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: having a cry. And you think you've heard the song 14 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: the Voice. 15 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, a million times also, and what it goes into 16 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: to get to that point. You know how he from 17 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: the start when he broke onto the scene in the 18 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: sixties with Sadie, and that was almost a poison chalice 19 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:48,520 Speaker 2: for him because everyone wrote him off as our little 20 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 2: Johnny Farnham and rock and roll sort of came into 21 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,240 Speaker 2: the world, and he wanted to be a rock singer, 22 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: but it seemed like he was a cabaret singer and 23 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 2: he's playing empty RSL clubs and all that sort of stuff. 24 00:00:58,120 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 2: It's so but the love affair of him and Glenn Wheatley, 25 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: Glenn Wheatley's undying devotion to John farnham as a manager, 26 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 2: and that bit where Glenn Wheatley puts his house, mortgages 27 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 2: his house twice, doesn't tell his wife gain or that 28 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: he's mortgaging the house to fund the album Whispering Jack. 29 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: Would your husband like I would you if your husband, 30 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,319 Speaker 2: Harley said I've just mortgaged the house to fund an album, what. 31 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 3: Would you do? 32 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 2: I'd say, have you gone in having gone insane? 33 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 3: And just it's mental. And when they put the album together, 34 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 3: Whispering Jack, when they put that together and we were 35 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 3: at the coal face of that. I wasn't working in 36 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 3: radio then, but I was like a club DJ, and 37 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: the idea of playing John Farnham just it blew us 38 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,000 Speaker 3: away because we thought no. And I was working down 39 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,320 Speaker 3: the snow at the time, and I remember back then 40 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 3: you just didn't have the connectivity that you have now. 41 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 3: And these ladies came down to the snow and they said, 42 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 3: have you got John Farnham's latest? And I actually said, 43 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 3: what Johnny Farnham and He's latest? And I said, I've 44 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 3: never heard it and they started singing it. I couldn't 45 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 3: comprehend it. Then when I actually got to a record, 46 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 3: let's do it, to buy it and listen to it. Oh, 47 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: and oh my god, this is That. 48 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: Was the transformation, wasn't it? But he went through such 49 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,239 Speaker 1: hard times before that? And as the audience, you're there thinking, 50 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: hold on, John, it's coming. Success is coming. And it 51 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 1: was so cleverly crafted this film, because you see how 52 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: it builds to that, and they get and he's lost 53 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: all hope and he and a couple of other musicians 54 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 1: and a producer in his rented garage in John's rented garage, 55 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 1: has got no money, couldn't afford to take the kids 56 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: to McDonald's. They're in the garage and they're making this 57 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: new album that John says, this will be me. Finally, 58 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 1: it will be me. And they get a demo tape 59 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:41,959 Speaker 1: of the voice and you hear a little snippet of 60 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: it there. Then they hear a little snippet of it there, 61 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: and then they decide to put in the bagpipes, and 62 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: you're hearing the evolution of this song that you know so. 63 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 2: Well, an of these pan flutes instead of bag Yeah. 64 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: And John said, we've got to have bagpipes, pipes, And 65 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: then you think, I know this song so well, but 66 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: I can't breathe until I hear him. I get emotional 67 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: I hear belt it out. And then when they choose 68 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: to have him belt it out. I'm not giving the 69 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: storyline away, but the footage they choose is he's on 70 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 1: stage in Germany and this is Germany in the late 71 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: eighties and it's about to rupt, the walls, about to 72 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: come down, and this entire crowd is singing with him 73 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: and it's incredible. I fell in love with John Farnham 74 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: all over again. 75 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 2: Well let's put it on with that in mind. Don't 76 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 2: get too emotional. 77 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: I'm okay. It's an incredible, incredible doco starts next week 78 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: if you get a chance to see it.